Jeff Taylor was shot in the shoulder during an attempted armed robbery around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, April, 29. It happened in the 600 block of Dumaine Street in the French Quarter as he was walking to find a cab with two female friends.

He said three men approached them from behind, put a gun to his face and asked for his belongings. "I saw that gun in my face. I saw his finger on the trigger, and I just wanted to do something quick," he said as he recalled the experience.

As he stared down the barrel of the gun, Taylor said he thought the man intended on killing them. He made a split-second decision to defend himself and his friends.

"I went to move the gun from my face and I got shot in the shoulder. I couldn't fight any more and luckily they ran off. I grabbed the girls and we ran off," he recounted.

Taylor prides himself on being very self-aware, but said this incident caught him off guard. He is having surgery Tuesday to remove the bullet from his shoulder. It's a painful reminder of the vicious attack, but he said he wouldn't do anything differently.

"If something were to happen again tomorrow, I'd fight for my life again."

In the days since, he's returned to the scene of the crime looking to track down surveillance video, hoping to find something that will help police get the men who attacked him off the street.

"I've actually walked down there, talked to a few people on Royal St. and asked if they can go through their video footage Monday morning between 4 and 4:30 to see if they can see people all grouped together. The three guys all had hoodies on. It would help a lot," he said.

Businesses and residents in the surrounding area said police have come by requesting to see their surveillance video, but have not been successful in finding anything to aid them in their investigation.